Classic MINI Racing Club (ID: 1001881) - Friday August 14th, 2015 @ 3:00pm EDT/7:00pm GMTOpen

[Woodski_427]

Maybe you changed the ballast position? That increases PP

I'm carrying 661kg, I did that to make sure I got my 135hp exactly on the last click of the slider, not sure if it really matters.

Haven't changed the position, though I did moved it backwards and forwards to see if it changed 👍

I wondered if the power component mix and running-in has slightly altered the torque or power curve or something to give more area. Dunno, don't watch things that closely.


@buybon355 - if you move ballast weight from centre towards the drive wheels in FF or FR cars (not sure about other drivetrains) it can increase the PP by a point. The ballast weight presumably needs to be a significant proportion (as defined by PD) of the overall car weight and distribution.

Presumably it favourable for the pp calculation to have some weight over the drive wheels (for traction of course) versus a more even front/rear weight distribution. Whether it translates to better performance on the track will be dependent on car/setup/driving style I suspect.

FWIW I always try moving any ballast towards the drive wheels, and stop at the point where (if) it goes up; and FF cars I like to keep F-R weight dist near 60/40 for traction. Horses for courses really...

Those 1:23s are fast, the podium will be tight. 👍

Yes, my best was a low 1:23 but doubt I'll be translating that to race performance , I'm well out of practice.

 

[buybon355]

Thanks for the info @Woodski_427 good to know. GT is full of little tricks eh! Not had a run yet, but was at my mates who had a mini with default diff settings and racing hard suspension and it actually felt great!!! wasn't quite matching the regs, but was really surprised given how varied all our set ups seem to be.

 

[Legro]

Let's hope it works this time.

 

[Sutsagrd]

Hey Mik and Miniacs
That was my first race online since Dec 2014.

Sorry I had to suddenly leave after just one race but this is why I've been away from online racing.

Anyway Midfield was fantastic and it was brilliant racing with you all again even though it was very brief.
Ill try my best to be back soon.

 

[Legro]

It was nice to take a spin in a virtual Mini again. Unless you count yesterday it's been a while since I've done so the last time. In fact, it's been 2 months since I played the GT6 before yesterday, so I guess it went pretty well if you consider that. Thanks for making it bit more interesting than single player time trial, it's always more fun when someone is 1 cm behind you trying to find a place to overtake.

I'll try to be back next week.

 

[Mr Gear]

WOW!
Sorry for the rage quit Mik.:tdown:👎

 

[buybon355]

Sorry for shouting out during the race mik, think you know it's not my style, but one individual was behaving worse and worse each race. To then perform a pit manoeuvre on me was the end. As always, thanks for hosting, and it was great to see so many cars on track, you run a great room.

 

[FergusMik]

WOW!
Sorry for the rage quit Mik.:tdown:👎

We will let it go this time Russ.

I'm watching replays so I can see what went on.

 

[FergusMik]

Sorry for shouting out during the race mik, think you know it's not my style, but one individual was behaving worse and worse each race. To then perform a pit manoeuvre on me was the end. As always, thanks for hosting, and it was great to see so many cars on track, you run a great room.

No problem, we did have a few new people tonight who may not be used to all that human traffic. I'm checking out the replays.

At the same time, we should always be evaluating our own driving to make sure each of us is trying our best to give room and be fair.👍

 

[IfAndOr]

WOW!
Sorry for the rage quit Mik.:tdown:👎

Take a deep breath. Count to 5. Breath out. Repeat and relax.
There, that's better.


It was a bit hectic at times! Good job it wasn't a narrow street circuit.
Hopefully with all that traffic I didn't make too much contact with anyone.


Great fun again Mik. Seems like I always say that, but that's because it is. 👍

 

[FergusMik]

Thanks again to all who came out, barring the technical issues at the beginning, we managed some decent racing.

 

[Mr Gear]

WOW!
Sorry for the rage quit Mik.:tdown:👎

No disrespect to you at all Mik, you run a wicked club which I enjoy.

No problem, we did have a few new people tonight who may not be used to all that human traffic. I'm checking out the replays.

At the same time, we should always be evaluating our own driving to make sure each of us is trying our best to give room and be fair.👍

Dunno if we had server problems tonight.
What with wierd starting grids, to strange manoeuvres and lots of tyre smoke.
Maybe not all drivers saw all cars on track.

Club newcomers are always welcome (roy and clayton), so is a full grid.

Again.......
Sorry for the rage quit, it's a 🤬's trick.

 

[IfAndOr]

Dunno if we had server problems tonight.
What with weird starting grids, to strange manoeuvres and lots of tyre smoke.
Maybe not all drivers saw all cars on track.

I think that may have been the case at times. Or not in the position they think they are. There were certainly a few odd issues.

Good old PD. I'm sure GT9 will have everything fixed.

 

[FergusMik]

I think that may have been the case at times. Or not in the position they think they are. There were certainly a few odd issues.

Good old PD. I'm sure GT9 will have everything fixed.

Some of the driving in the replays really does look like some people didn't see the car near them.

Since we haven't had a full room for a couple of updates, I'm going to try limiting the room to 12 next week and see how stable it is.

We have to try and make sure we get everyone to acknowledge the number of people on track before we start each race.

 

[Mr Gear]

Since we haven't had a full room for a couple of updates, I'm going to try limiting the room to 12 next week and see how stable it is.

We have to try and make sure we get everyone to acknowledge the number of people on track before we start each race.

Disabling voice chat too sometimes helps room stability.
At least until update 1.17 "fixes known problems online"

 

[IfAndOr]

Yeah, while it's nice to have it on voice chat does consume some bandwidth. We haven't been to bad with it on so far though.
Also perhaps it's worth testing/trying dropping the race quality slider down one notch. There's slightly less data to transmit between all the PS3's then.

At least until update 1.17 "fixes known problems online"

1.17! I like an optimist.

 

[FergusMik]

Yeah, while it's nice to have it on voice chat does consume some bandwidth. We haven't been to bad with it on so far though.
Also perhaps it's worth testing/trying dropping the race quality slider down one notch. There's slightly less data to transmit between all the PS3's then.



1.17! I like an optimist.

I've always dropped the quality slider since we started. Honestly this was the first time I've had problems this bad, I guess I've been lucky so far.

 

[IfAndOr]

I've always dropped the quality slider since we started.

I've never noticed what you set it to actually.

Honestly this was the first time I've had problems this bad, I guess I've been lucky so far.

That's true. Best leave things alone. It'll probably be OK next week. Although, like you suggested, limiting the room number to perhaps 12 to 14, might be an option. It's a shame to loose a full room though.

 

[bloodyboyblue]

Fun racing today, I'm glad I was usually off on my own or racing one other person so I avoided the chaos, I think I hit buybon once and that was about it. Original minis are definitely one of the most fun cars to race, would like to race them stock sometime though since I can usually only be competitive if I steal someone else's setup haha.

 

[Royke1989]

Dunno if we had server problems tonight.
What with wierd starting grids, to strange manoeuvres and lots of tyre smoke.
Maybe not all drivers saw all cars on track.

It has been said. I didn't saw all cars on track.
In the sprint races I only saw 4 other Mini's and during the endurance races just 3 other Mini's. So that was al little bit weird.

 

[Aaroh]

Good racing last night, with a room a full of Mini's:tup: In the last race after coming out of the pits, I was in 2nd place and couldn't see the guy in 1st place. Sorry if I hit you.
Instead of reducing the number of Mini's, can we not disable voice chat?

 

[Pimasz]

I am sorry I hurt left but I do not like the kamikaze competitions !

 

[Pimasz]

Elnézést kérek,hogy kiléptem de nem szeretem a kamikáze versenyt!

 

[IfAndOr]

So I think that's it then Mik, some drivers could not see the other drivers. And with that differing between races it's bound to cause chaos! Kamikaze and pit manoeuvres were not intended by anyone I hope.

I thought I could see everyone but I'm not sure now.

I think it's best if we write the problems off and see how we get on next week. Hopefully it will be better.

We shouldn't have to do it, but a roll call from each driver of the cars they can see on track could help.

 

[FergusMik]

Fun racing today, I'm glad I was usually off on my own or racing one other person so I avoided the chaos, I think I hit buybon once and that was about it. Original minis are definitely one of the most fun cars to race, would like to race them stock sometime though since I can usually only be competitive if I steal someone else's setup haha.

It is a fun car to race, but trust me they are not so much when stock, way too slow.

Using others setups is cool, that's why we posted our setup in this thread and will help people setup their cars.

 

[FergusMik]

It has been said. I didn't saw all cars on track.
In the sprint races I only saw 4 other Mini's and during the endurance races just 3 other Mini's. So that was al little bit weird.

I figured as much when I watched the replays.
As IfAndOr said, we need to sound off if we can't see all the cars on track. 👍

 

[FergusMik]

Good racing last night, with a room a full of Mini's:tup: In the last race after coming out of the pits, I was in 2nd place and couldn't see the guy in 1st place. Sorry if I hit you.
Instead of reducing the number of Mini's, can we not disable voice chat?

I'm going to try reducing cars first, we have always had voice enabled without issue and we prefer to use it, makes it easier to communicate.

Plus we like the bantar.

 

[FergusMik]

So I think that's it then Mik, some drivers could not see the other drivers. And with that differing between races it's bound to cause chaos! Kamikaze and pit manoeuvres were not intended by anyone I hope.

I thought I could see everyone but I'm not sure now.

I think it's best if we write the problems off and see how we get on next week. Hopefully it will be better.

We shouldn't have to do it, but a roll call from each driver of the cars they can see on track could help.

Like I said last night, it's actually a wonder this stuff works at all!

We have been spoiled with not having too many issues over the time we have been running this club. 👍

 

[IfAndOr]

...it's actually a wonder this stuff works at all!

Is this a quote from Kaz?

 

[Mr Gear]

Plus we like the bantar.

Did you say banter or batter?

Eh Gabe?


Btw, not a clue about the sellotape.